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Kuali
Techstars '24Austin, US · Founded 2017 · 15 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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Kuali.ai provides AI-powered recruitment and talent acquisition software that automates the hiring process from job posting through onboarding. The platform uses artificial intelligence to screen resumes, conduct automated interviews, and recommend candidates, serving companies across industries seeking to streamline their hiring operations.
Also known as Kuali AI · Kuali Co · Kuali Inc. · Kuali.ai · KualiCo
Investors · 4
How we know: Banneker Partners's portfolio page · press coverage · Not right? Tell us
How we know: the Techstars portfolio · open dataset · Top 3000 Accelerator Startups (no YC) 2026-08 · Not right? Tell us
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$10M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2014–2019
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Kuali (kuali.ai) sells AI-based software that automates the recruiting and selection workflow, from publishing vacancies through evaluation, hiring and onboarding. Its Spanish-language site describes modules including an intelligent CV scanner that scores large volumes of resumes, a conversational assistant bot that interviews applicants and assesses their communication competencies, customized technical and soft-skill tests and roleplays, automated calls and messages, candidate recommendation based on AI matching and personality assessments, recruiting analytics, an onboarding module, and Kuali Academy, an asynchronous learning platform for training teams and new hires.
A Techstars job board profile presents the same product set under the names Talent Pro (recruiting tools and applicant tracking), Testing Pro (personality, skills and custom evaluations), Docs Pro (centralized documentation in document, PDF, audio and video formats with digital signature integration), Chat Pro (conversational intelligence over WhatsApp) and Academy (training center for building talent pools, onboarding and upskilling). The company is listed there with a 2017 founding year, 1-10 employees and locations in Austin, Texas.
Communication with candidates is designed to run across WhatsApp, email, SMS and phone calls rather than a single job board, with automated reminders, responses and follow-ups. The company positions the product as configurable across role types and volumes, from high-volume operational hiring to technical and administrative roles.
Business model
B2B software sold to employer talent-acquisition and HR teams, delivered as an online platform with demo-led sales; the site offers a trial and demo scheduling.
Traction
The company's site cites more than 116,000 hours saved and $1.45M in efficiency gained across its customer base, and publishes case studies including Concentrix (30,000 hours of work saved), Yape (time-to-hire reduced from two weeks to 48 hours), iVisa (70% less time spent on screening), Ubycall (one recruiter managing up to 500 vacancies), AVLA (more than 1,500 brokers trained through AVLA Academy) and Konecta (20% performance improvement for advisors in their first days).
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
A small AI recruitment-automation vendor serving enterprise and startup employers, primarily in Latin American markets.
Positions itself on end-to-end automation of the selection funnel combined with multi-channel candidate outreach beyond LinkedIn — notably WhatsApp, SMS and automated calls — and on configurable evaluation stages spanning high-volume operational roles through technical positions.
Technology
Artificial-intelligence components for automated resume parsing and scoring, conversational bots that interview and evaluate candidates, automated voice calls and messaging, customized assessments and roleplays, candidate-matching algorithms combined with personality evaluations, and recruiting analytics dashboards. Channel integrations cover WhatsApp, email, SMS and telephone, plus digital signature support for documentation.
Go-to-market
Direct sales supported by product trials, demo scheduling, published customer case studies and a resource library; customer references skew toward Latin American enterprises and startups.
Employers hiring at volume as well as for specialized roles, including BPO/contact-center operators, financial services, fintech and e-commerce companies; named users on the site include Concentrix, Konecta, Yape, BCP, AVLA, iVisa, Ubycall, Recsa and Preauth.
Geography
Listed in Austin, Texas, with a Spanish-language product site and customer references concentrated in Latin America, including Peruvian companies such as Yape and BCP.
Compiled by commissioned research from 10 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsThe for-profit Kuali raised a Series B funding round in 2025, according to a CASRAI guide on the Coeus/Kuali Research lineage; no amount or investors were stated.
The non-profit Kuali Foundation disbanded, citing extensive adoption of Kuali software by educational institutions; the for-profit Kuali continued operating independently.
KualiCo acquired the software-as-a-service component of rSmart, which provided hosting primarily for the Kuali Financial System and the Kuali Coeus research management module; rSmart CEO Chris Coppola joined KualiCo as Chief Operating Officer.
The Kuali Foundation announced the launch of its for-profit commercial entity, which re-licensed and assumed responsibility for development of the Kuali community software and moved it to the cloud.
Joel Dehlin led the new company as CEO and held a seat on its board of directors; Chris Coppola, former CEO of rSmart, became Chief Operating Officer responsible for sales, marketing, operations and product development.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 10
primary sources listed
- Kualikuali.ai · web
10 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Kuali do?
- Kuali.ai is an AI recruitment automation platform that screens CVs, runs automated interviews and evaluations, and manages onboarding.
- Who are Kuali's investors?
- Kuali's investors include Banneker Partners, Techstars, Owl Ventures.
- How much funding has Kuali raised?
- Kuali has disclosed $10M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Kuali headquartered?
- Kuali is headquartered in Austin, US.